GMO Apples: Would You Eat an Apple That Never Turned Brown?

GMO apples are coming to a store near you.

In this Oct. 14, 2014 photo, apples grow on a tree at Samascott Orchards in Kinderhook, N.Y. Apple growers are tapping into the hard cider revenue stream after sales of hard cider in the U.S. have tripled over the last three years to $1.3 billion in 2013. AP Photo/Mike Groll

Genetically modified apples that don’t turn brown were approved by a U.S. Department of Agriculture agency this week, and they might be coming to a grocery store near you.

The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service says it approved the genetically modified apples because they’re “unlikely to pose a plant pest risk to agriculture and other plants in the United States.”

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